The 2017 meeting took place February 10-11, 2017 at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. Participants enjoyed two days of inspiring, thought-provoking talks dealing with the advances, the discoveries, and the issues facing the world of photographic conservation. They also had a night of delicious foods and drinks as we celebrated the first day of talks with an Evening Reception.
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Meeting Schedule
Thursday, February 9
1600-1900 Heugh-Edmondson Studio Open House
Friday, February 10
0830 – 0900 Registration
0900 – 0915 Welcome
0915 – 0945 Keith F. Davis, Senior Photography Curator, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Building a Collection: The History of the Hallmark / NAMA Photography Collection)
0945 – 1015 Ann Deckers (The Lievan Gevaert Tower: a New Low Energy Climate Storage Facility for the Collection of the FOMU)
1015 – 1045 Adrienne Lundgren (Hidden Treasures in the Photographic Technology Books at the Library of Congress)
1045 – 1115 Tea & Coffee
1115 – 1145 Ronel Namde, Joan M. Walker (Setting the Tone: Platinum Toning of Silver Photographs)
1145 – 1215 Margaret Wessling (Edward Weston’s Platinum and Palladium Photographs)
1215 – 1245 Ariel Pate, Kaslyne O’Connor, Sylvie Penichon (The Alfred Stieglitz Collection: Photographs Conservation and Art Historical Data goes Digital at the Art Institute of Chicago)
1245 – 0200 Lunch
0200 – 0230 Tips session
0230 – 0430 Dry mount-press mini-symposium
0630 – 0900 Reception
Saturday, February 11
0830 – 0900 Registration
0900 – 0930 Thomas M. Edmondson (The Conservation Treatment of A Convex Crayon Enlargement Portrait after a Failed Decoupage Attempt)
0930 – 1000 Lisa Duncan, Thomas M. Edmondson, Jessica Keister, Saori Kawasumi Lewis (What Is It: Empirical Research into the Art of Bleaching Crayon Enlargements)
1000 – 1030 Monique C. Fischer, Amanda Maloney (Francesca Woodman’s BFA Thesis: Conserving a Work of Art for an Active Archive)
1030 – 1100 Tea & Coffee
1100 – 1130 Elsa Thyss, Marie-Angelique Languille (The Effects of Solvents on Early Color Transparencies)
1130 – 1200 Zach Long (Conservation of Two Floris Neusüss Photograms)
1200 – 0100 Business meeting
0100 – 0200 Lunch
0200 – 0230 Rachel K. Wetzel (An Experimental Era: The Ungilded Daguerreotype in Early America)
0230 – 0300 Geneva Iklé (William Sawyer’s study album)
0300 – 0330 Tea & Coffee
0330 – 0400 Jessica Keister, Jessica Silverman (ATP Testing to Determine if Cultural Artifacts are Contaminated with Active Biological Materials)
0400 – 0430 Chloe Lucas, Philippe Dantigny (Disinfection treatment of Molded Silver Gelatin Prints with Ethanol Vapors)